Podcasts about james polk

Dopo la fortunata serie “Tredici presidenti per raccontare l'America”, il prof. Mario Del Pero (Professore di Storia Internazionale presso SciencesPo, Parigi) e Riccardo Alcaro (Coordinatore delle Ricerche e responsabile del Programma Attori globali dello IAI) tornano con una nuova serie di podcast dal titolo “Conversazioni sull'America”. Le Conversazioni si concentrano su fatti di cronaca politica americana attuali per cercarne paralleli storici, mettendo in luce le continuità col passato ma anche le differenze dell'oggi. La seconda puntata si occupa del Manifest Destiny, la convinzione che gli Stati Uniti non potessero far altro che espandersi sul continente da costa a costa, alimentata da diverse correnti ideologiche. Al Manifest Destiny sono legati soprattutto i nomi di tre presidenti: James Polk, William McKinley e Theodore Roosevelt. In questo episodio i due autori si occupano del primo, James Polk, presidente democratico che tra il 1845 e il 1849, promosse l'annessione del Texas, l'acquisizione del Territorio dell'Oregon e la conquista, attraverso una guerra contro il Messico, del Southwest e della California A cura di Francesco De Leo. Montaggio di Silvio Farina. https://storiainpodcast.focus.it - Canale Le questioni della Storia ------------ Storia in Podcast di Focus si può ascoltare anche su Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/293C5TZniMOgqHdBLSTaRc ed Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/la-voce-della-storia/id1511551427. Siamo in tutte le edicole... ma anche qui: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FocusStoria/ - Gruppo Facebook Focus Storia Wars: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FocuStoriaWars/ (per appassionati di storia militare) - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/focusitvideo - Twitter: https://twitter.com/focusstoria - Sito: https://www.focus.it/cultura Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's hard to think of a better guide to the ongoing US-China trade war than Evan Medeiros. A professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a lifelong scholar of the US-China relationship, Evan is also the co-author (with James Polk) of a new study, China's New Economic Weapons. Ever since the trade wars of the first Trump term, Chinese officials have been designing a new set of weapons to prepare them for another provocation from the US."Whereas in the past China mainly used basic trade or investment incentives and sanctions," the authors write, "today China is developing, testing, and deploying an entirely new collection of legal and regulatory tools for the explicit purpose of imposing targeted costs on companies and countries it sees as acting against its interests. In effect, these are precision-guided economic munitions, designed to inflict targeted and often substantial pain for political and geopolitical purposes." In other words, China has been preparing for exactly this moment. Cardiff and Evan discuss these new weapons, the long evolution of the US-China relationship, Evan's own experience in policymaking in the Obama White House, how both American and Chinese leaders have changed in the past decade, and the stakes of the current standoff.Related links: China's New Economic WeaponsChina and Russia Will Not Be SplitThe Delusion of Peak ChinaEvan's Faculty Page Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Some say that Martin Van Buren was one of themost remarkable politicians—not only of his time, but in American presidential history. Co-editor of the Martin Van Buren Papers, James M. Bradley writes this new biography of the 8th president of the United States . Van Buren was the first chief executive not born a British citizen, and the first to use the party system to chart his way from tavern-keeper's son to the pinnacle of power. Additionally, he was the principal architect of the party system and one of the founders of the Democratic Party, he came to dominate New York-then the most influential state in the Union-and was instrumental in electing Andrew Jackson president. Van Buren's skills as a political strategist were unparalleled—and was coined the "Little Magician"—winning him a series of high-profile offices: US senator, New York's governor, US secretary of state, US vice president, and finally theWhite House. In his rise to power, Van Buren sought consensus and conciliation, bending to the wishes of slave interests and complicit in the dispossession of America's Indigenous population, two of the darkest chapters in American history. This first full-scale portrait charts Van Buren's ascent from a tavern in the Hudson Valley to the presidency, concluding with his late-career involvement in an antislavery movement. Offering vivid profiles of the day's leading figures including Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, DeWitt Clinton, and James Polk, Bradley's book depicts the struggle for power in the tumultuous decadesleading up to the Civil War.About the AuthorJames M. Bradley is co-editor of the Martin Van Buren Papers, based at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He is an Adjunct Instructor in the public history program at State University of New York at Albany and was the Senior Project Editor of Encyclopedia of New York City,published by Yale University Press.          For more info on the book click HERE

Send us a textOne day, Jesus will make all things new, once and for all, doing away with sin and death, and sadness and loss. What a glorious day that will be.Acts 2:24God raised [Jesus] from the dead, freeing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on Him.Remaster of Episode 24, originally aired on September 4, 2019.Support the show

Trump 2.0 is a hodgepodge of distinctly American political strains: the bare-knuckled nationalism and anti-elitism of Andrew Jackson, the tariff-loving protectionism of William McKinley, the small-government/pro-business policies of Calvin Coolidge, the unforgiving enemies lists of Richard Nixon, the deportation policies of Dwight Eisenhower, the manifest destiny of James Polk and the isolationism of 1914-era Woodrow Wilson. American First policies announced yesterday create risks for investors since its supply side benefits collide with its inflationary tendencies; there's not a lot of room for error at a time of elevated US equity multiples. View video here

BONUS episode featuring my summer of presidential travels as I fit in as many birthplaces, gravesites, homes, and other sites into one history professor's summer break. The third and final leg: join me as I visit Virginia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas!Check out "How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels, 2024, Part 1"!Check out "How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels, 2024, Part 2"! Links to Previous Episodes Mentioned:Birthplaces"Thomas Jefferson and Shadwell""William Henry Harrison and Berkeley Plantation""John Tyler and Greenway""Zachary Taylor and Montebello""Woodrow Wilson and Staunton" Homes"Thomas Jefferson and Monticello""James Madison and Montpelier""James Monroe and Highland""Andrew Jackson and the Hermitage""John Tyler and Sherwood Forest""James Polk and Columbia""Andrew Johnson and Greeneville" "Bill Clinton and Chappaqua" Gravesites"Thomas Jefferson's Tomb""James Madison's Tomb""James Monroe's Tomb""Andrew Jackson's Tomb""John Tyler's Tomb""James Polk's Tomb"Support the showVisit the social media on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

Tennessee boasts three presidents.  Host Tom Price begins his three part presidential series by interviewing the long-time director of the President James K. Polk Home and Museum, John Holtzapple.  Polk is one of the least-known presidents in American history, but as you will hear, deserves to be remembered as one of the most successful.  His accomplishments include starting the Naval Academy, the modern postal system, and the Independent Treasury System…none of which were his main goals…which he also accomplished in a promised single term of office.

You may not know much about President James Polk, but one of his ideas shaped the United States as we know it today, on THIS DAY, December 3rd with Chris Conley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"I love you, Sarah, for all eternity, I love you.” So died James Polk, 11th President of the United States, our shortest post-Presidency, and the youngest to die, at the time! Learn about his brief post-Presidency; his illness and death; his funeral, burial, and commemorations, plus his multiple moves!Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information!Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2024/08/27/season-3-episode-11-james-polks-tomb/Season 1's James K Polk Episode-"James K Polk and Pineville" on his birthplace!Season 2's James K Polk Episode-"James K Polk and Columbia" on his home!Support the Show.Visit the social media on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

From George Washington's powdered pigtail to John Quincy Adams' bushy side-whiskers and from James Polk's masterful mullet to John F. Kennedy's refined Ivy League coif, the tresses of American leaders have long conveyed important political and symbolic messages.There are surprising, and multi-dimensional ways that hair has influenced the personalities, public and private lives, personal scandals, and tragedies of the men and women who have occupied the White House and influenced the nation at large.To explore this unconventional aspect of American history is today's guest, Ted Pappas, author of “Combing Through the White House: Hair and Its Shocking Impact on the Politics, Private Lives, and Legacies of the Presidents.”

Ocho presidentes de los EEUU, contando a Joe Biden que anunció su renuncia este domingo, no han optado a la reelección pese a que eran elegibles: Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969), Harry S. Truman (1945-1953), Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929), Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909), James Polk (1845-1849), James Buchanan (1857-1861) y Rutherford Hayes (1877-1881), y sólo uno, Richard Nixon (1969-1974), presentó su renuncia durante su mandato.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ab 1850 sollte das Schreckgespenst der Sezession die amerikanische Politik prägen und lähmen - und den Geist und Mythos des Wilden Westens weiter befeuern. Bis zum Jahr 1849 hatten die USA unter Präsident James Polk endgültig auch die Westküste erreicht. Doch die folgenden Jahrzehnte sollten die Staaten auseinanderreißen und einen Wiederaufbau der Union erfordern. In dieser Folge werfen wir einen Blick auf die Präsidenten vor, während und nach des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs - vom schicksalhaften "Kompromiss von 1850" und den Zeiten von Bleeding Kansas bis zum "Kompromiss von 1877" und dem Abschluss der Reconstruction, der die Staaten offiziell wieder in einer Union zusammenführen sollte - ein Zeitraum, in dem der Wilde Westen erst so richtig "wild" werden sollte. 0:00:00 - Intro und Einmleitung 0:03:12 - Präsident 12: Zachary Taylor (1849 - 1850) 0:05:05 - (Einschub: Der Missouri-Kompromiss von 1820 - bis ca 0:06:34) 0:09:59 - Präsident 13: Millard Fillmore (1850 - 1853) 0:17:30 - Präsident 14: Franklin Pierce (1853 - 1857) 0:21:25 - Präsident 15: James Buchannan (1857 - 1861) 0:37:37 - Präsident 16: Abraham Lincoln (1861 - 1865) 0:50:50 - Präsident 17: Andrew Johnson (1865 - 1869) 1:03:30 - Präsident 18: Ulysses S. Grant (1869 - 1877) 1:13:16 - Präsident 19: Rutherford B. Hayes (1877 - 1881) 1:24:27 - Verabschiedung und Ausblick aufs nächste Mal 

Wir sprechen in diesem Podcast viel von Ereignissen aus dem Wilden Westen - aber wer hat in dieser Zeit die Geschicke der Vereinigten Staaten gelenkt?   Wir stellen in dieser und den nächsten Folgen alle US-Präsidenten der für den "Wilden Westen" relevanten Zeitspanne einmal näher vor. Den Anfang macht die "Frontier"-Ära: Vom ersten Präsidenten der jungen Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika bis hin zu dem Präsidenten, unter dem die USA sich schließlich komplett von Küste zu Küste hin erstrecken sollten.   0:00:00 - Intro und Einleitung 0:04:22 - Präsident 1: George Washington (1789 - 1797) 0:11:12 - Präsident 2: John Adams (1797 - 1801) 0:15:59 - Präsident 3: Thomas Jefferson (1801 - 1809) 0:26:58 - Präsident 4: James Maddison (1809 - 1817) 0:30:07 - Präsident 5: James Monroe (1817 - 1825) 0:36:56 - Präsident 6: John Quincy Adams (1825 - 1829) 0:39:49 - Präsident 7: Andrew Jackson (1829 - 1837) 0:47:55 - Präsident 8: Martin van Buren (1837 - 1841) 0:52:15 - Präsident 9: William Henry Harrison (März 1841 - April 1841) 0:58:14 - Präsident 10: John Tyler (1841 - 1845) 1:00:01 - Präsident 11: James Polk (1845 - 1851) 1:05:55 - Verabschiedung und Ausblick aufs nächste Mal

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Robert Merry about the Presidency of James Polk. They give and overview of James Polk, influence of Andrew Jackson, Polk's personality and trajectory, and the four major issues he tackled as President. They discuss Polk's expansionism, the Mexican-American War, Polk's one-term deal, legacy, and many more topics. Robert W. Merry has an extensive background as a reporter, newsroom manager, and publishing CEO. He has both his Bachelor's and Master's in Journalism. Currently, he is the author of numerous books on American history and foreign policy, including, A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent. Website: https://www.robertwmerry.com/ Get full access to Converging Dialogues at convergingdialogues.substack.com/subscribe

Listen every Tuesday from 21 till 22 (Moscow time) Jazz FM (radiojazzfm.ru) Subscribe in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ru/podcast/funk-and-beyond-weekly/id1063844118?mt=2 for more details please visit beyondfunk.ru Tracklist: 1. Symbolics - Taste Of Your Love 2. J.J. Lewis - Mississippi Cotton Fields 3. The Undisputed Truth - Ball of Confusion 4. Sweet Mixture - House Of Fun And Love 5. James Polk & The Brothers - Never Give Him Up 6. Blue Magic - Can I Say I Love You 7. The Soul Lifters - Hot, Funky, And Sweaty 8. L.J. Waiters - Natural Beauty 9. Bettye LaVette - Do Your Duty 10. Embryo - You're Too Easy 11. Eddie Henderson - Kumquat Kid 12. Suzee Ikeda - I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You 13. Los Mozambiques - Viva Tirado 14. Floyd Morris - A Mellow Mood 15. Nick Ingman - Down Home 16. Ray James - Nature Boy 17. Carl Anderson - Buttercup 18. Hiroshi and Claudia - Beats in the Depth 19. Madeline - Don't It Drive You Crazy

War With Mexico Welcome to the Hidden History of Texas. This is Episode 44 – War With Mexico -  As always, brought to you by Ashby Navis and Tennyson Media Publishers, producers of  high quality games, productivity, mental health apps, and  a comprehensive catalog of  audiobooks. Visit AshbyNavis.com for more information. The 1846-1848 conflict known in the United States as the Mexican-American War was called the U.S. Invasion by Mexico. It was fueled by the expansionist views of President James Polk and was an example of his belief in the ‘Manifest Destiny'. He firmly believed that the United States was destined by God to own all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific. After he became President and oversaw the annexation of Texas into the union as a State, he realized that since Mexico controlled everything west of Texas, it  was standing in his way. Initially he  tried to have Mexico agree to several small issues. After the Battle of San Jacinto, even though Texas and the United States claimed Texas was independent the fact was that Mexico had never officially signed a peace treaty. Polk wanted Mexico to recognize that the boundary between the United States and Mexico was the Rio Grande. He also wanted Mexico to sell Northern California to the United States. He did his best to pressure Mexico into accepting these terms, but he failed because nobody in Mexico would agree to giving up any territory to the United States and that especially included Texas. Polk was not a person to take no for an answer, and he grew increasingly frustrated by Mexico. On January 13, 1846, he ordered the army that was under the control of Gen. Zachary Taylor's, which was in Corpus Christi, to move to the Rio Grande. Needless to say, the Mexican government took this to be an act of war. The Mexicans responded by crossing the Rio Grande on April 25 at Matamoros and  ambushed an American patrol. Much like President Johnson would do later with the Gulf of Tonkin incident to justify further involvement in Vietnam, on May 13th, Polk used this to convince Congress to declare war on Mexico. He claimed that this was because "American blood had been shed upon American soil."  On May 8 and 9, even before the official declaration of war Taylor's army defeated a force of 3,700 Mexican soldiers under Gen. Mariano Arista in the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma Initially the American forces tried to use the time-honored plan of blockading Mexican coastal cities and also occupying the Mexican states that bordered Texas. These plans were based on a very unrealistic belief that this would somehow coerce Mexico into giving up territory. In September General Taylor, accompanied by a significant number of volunteers that included many Texans, seized Monterrey. He then declared that General Arista had agreed to an armistice. Taylor succeeded in large part due to the role that  Col. John Coffee Hays's Texas Mounted Rifles played during the attack on the city.  Polk, however, was not satisfied with the armistice and he denounced it, forcing Taylor to drive further south to Saltillo and then east to Victoria. Meanwhile Gen. John E. Wool lead more troops from San Antonio with the initial intention of threatening Chihuahua, instead he turned and ended up joining Taylor's forces. Not content with just Texas and Mexico, President Polk sent Gen. Stephen W. Kearny from Fort Leavenworth with instructions to seize New Mexico. Finally in July, as Taylor's forces were gathering, the navy sent its Pacificsquadron under Commodore John D. Sloat to occupy Monterey and San  Francisco, California. From that post they joined a force of Anglo settlers who  at the urging of the explorer John C. Frémont had established their own government. Although an August incursion into southern California failed, the area was eventually secured by a joint army-navy expedition under Kearny and Commodore Robert F. Stockton in January 1847. Meanwhile,

How could victory be won at Palo Alto?

Tredici presidenti – la vita, l'azione di governo, l'impatto che hanno avuto sull'America (e oltre) – raccontati in forma di una chiacchierata – non sempre seria. A fare le domande, Riccardo Alcaro, coordinatore delle ricerche dell'Istituto Affari Internazionali. Chi risponde è Mario Del Pero, illustre americanista e Professore di Storia Internazionale presso SciencesPo a Parigi.Terza puntata dedicata ad Andrew Jackson, 7° presidente degli Stati Uniti, in carica per due mandati dal 1829 al 1837.Jackson è il primo presidente della generazione successiva a quella dei padri fondatori. Ma prima ancora del sistema politico, la novità di Jackson rispetto ai presidenti padri fondatori – dopo Washington: Adams, Jefferson, Madison Monroe e Adams – sta nella sua biografia decisamente fuori dall'ordinario. Quella di Jackson è infatti una vita avventurosa, esterna al percorso formativo dei suoi predecessori e caratterizzata soprattutto dalla sua esperienza militare e dal modo in cui fece di questa il trampolino verso la politica – in modo non dissimile, direi, da quanto aveva fatto Washington.Andrew Jackson nasce nel 1767, prima dunque dell'indipendenza, in una delle due Caroline (lui sosteneva di essere originario della Carolina del Sud, ma secondo alcuni l'area in cui nacque apparteneva a quella del Nord), anche se poi finì per rappresentare il Tennessee nel senato federale. La sua famiglia, di origine scozzese e irlandese, gli garantisce una buona educazione. Orfano già all'età di 14 anni, dalla madre ereditò l'odio per gli inglesi e le loro istituzioni politiche (monarchia) e sociali (aristocrazia), ulteriormente rafforzato dalla guerra e dalla prigionia che ne seguì. Pur avendo partecipato come staffetta, giovanissimo, alla guerra di indipendenza, è in un'altra guerra che Jackson si conquistò i gradi militari, il favore del pubblico e infine l'attenzione della leadership politica, ovvero la guerra che gli Stati Uniti combatterono contro l'Impero britannico tra il 1812 e il 1815 e contro i nativi americani alleati dei britannici.Il prestigio conquistato nelle campagne militari proietta Jackson sulla scena politica, al punto da candidarsi alle presidenziali del 1824, una tornata elettorale che segna l'inizio della fine del primo sistema partitico, già peraltro in via di dissoluzione data la crescente irrilevanza dei Federalisti e le faide interne ai Democratici-Repubblicani. Grazie anche all'espansione del suffragio elettorale, Jackson ottiene la maggioranza relativa sia del voto popolare che del collegio elettorale, eppure la presidenza finisce al suo sfidante John Quincy Adams.La presidenza di Jackson è caratterizzata da due trionfi elettorali nel 1828 e '32, il primo dei quali al termine di una campagna elettorale in cui Jackson è accusato di tutto (di essere un mulatto, uno schiavista, un assassino, uno stupratore di native americane, addirittura un cannibale), il che porta alla morte della moglie (accusata di adulterio; famose le parole di Jackson: “possa dio onnipotente perdonare i suoi assassini, come so che lei farebbe; perché io non potrò mai farlo”).Nonostante la sua avversione verso la centralizzazione federale, Jackson fu anche un deciso unionista – arrivando a minacciare un intervento armato contro la Carolina del Sud, rea di eccessivo autonomismo – e un espansionista – appoggiò la secessione dal Messico del Texas, che verrà poi annesso nella guerra messicana del presidente James Polk nella seconda metà degli anni '40.https://storiainpodcast.focus.it - Canale PersonaggiA cura di Francesco De Leo. Montaggio di Silvio Farina.------------Storia in Podcast di Focus si può ascoltare anche su Spotify http://bit.ly/VoceDellaStoria ed Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/la-voce-della-storia/id1511551427.Siamo in tutte le edicole... ma anche qui:- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FocusStoria/- Gruppo Facebook Focus Storia Wars: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FocuStoriaWars/ (per appassionati di storia militare)- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/focusitvideo- Twitter: https://twitter.com/focusstoria- Sito: https://www.focus.it/cultura

Tredici presidenti – la vita, l'azione di governo, l'impatto che hanno avuto sull'America (e oltre) – raccontati in forma di una chiacchierata – non sempre seria. A fare le domande, Riccardo Alcaro, coordinatore delle ricerche dell'Istituto Affari Internazionali. Chi risponde è Mario Del Pero, illustre americanista e Professore di Storia Internazionale presso SciencesPo a Parigi.Terza puntata dedicata ad Andrew Jackson, 7° presidente degli Stati Uniti, in carica per due mandati dal 1829 al 1837.Jackson è il primo presidente della generazione successiva a quella dei padri fondatori. Ma prima ancora del sistema politico, la novità di Jackson rispetto ai presidenti padri fondatori – dopo Washington: Adams, Jefferson, Madison Monroe e Adams – sta nella sua biografia decisamente fuori dall'ordinario. Quella di Jackson è infatti una vita avventurosa, esterna al percorso formativo dei suoi predecessori e caratterizzata soprattutto dalla sua esperienza militare e dal modo in cui fece di questa il trampolino verso la politica – in modo non dissimile, direi, da quanto aveva fatto Washington.Andrew Jackson nasce nel 1767, prima dunque dell'indipendenza, in una delle due Caroline (lui sosteneva di essere originario della Carolina del Sud, ma secondo alcuni l'area in cui nacque apparteneva a quella del Nord), anche se poi finì per rappresentare il Tennessee nel senato federale. La sua famiglia, di origine scozzese e irlandese, gli garantisce una buona educazione. Orfano già all'età di 14 anni, dalla madre ereditò l'odio per gli inglesi e le loro istituzioni politiche (monarchia) e sociali (aristocrazia), ulteriormente rafforzato dalla guerra e dalla prigionia che ne seguì. Pur avendo partecipato come staffetta, giovanissimo, alla guerra di indipendenza, è in un'altra guerra che Jackson si conquistò i gradi militari, il favore del pubblico e infine l'attenzione della leadership politica, ovvero la guerra che gli Stati Uniti combatterono contro l'Impero britannico tra il 1812 e il 1815 e contro i nativi americani alleati dei britannici.Il prestigio conquistato nelle campagne militari proietta Jackson sulla scena politica, al punto da candidarsi alle presidenziali del 1824, una tornata elettorale che segna l'inizio della fine del primo sistema partitico, già peraltro in via di dissoluzione data la crescente irrilevanza dei Federalisti e le faide interne ai Democratici-Repubblicani. Grazie anche all'espansione del suffragio elettorale, Jackson ottiene la maggioranza relativa sia del voto popolare che del collegio elettorale, eppure la presidenza finisce al suo sfidante John Quincy Adams.La presidenza di Jackson è caratterizzata da due trionfi elettorali nel 1828 e '32, il primo dei quali al termine di una campagna elettorale in cui Jackson è accusato di tutto (di essere un mulatto, uno schiavista, un assassino, uno stupratore di native americane, addirittura un cannibale), il che porta alla morte della moglie (accusata di adulterio; famose le parole di Jackson: “possa dio onnipotente perdonare i suoi assassini, come so che lei farebbe; perché io non potrò mai farlo”).Nonostante la sua avversione verso la centralizzazione federale, Jackson fu anche un deciso unionista – arrivando a minacciare un intervento armato contro la Carolina del Sud, rea di eccessivo autonomismo – e un espansionista – appoggiò la secessione dal Messico del Texas, che verrà poi annesso nella guerra messicana del presidente James Polk nella seconda metà degli anni '40.https://storiainpodcast.focus.it - Canale PersonaggiA cura di Francesco De Leo. Montaggio di Silvio Farina.------------Storia in Podcast di Focus si può ascoltare anche su Spotify http://bit.ly/VoceDellaStoria ed Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/la-voce-della-storia/id1511551427.Siamo in tutte le edicole... ma anche qui:- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FocusStoria/- Gruppo Facebook Focus Storia Wars: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FocuStoriaWars/ (per appassionati di storia militare)- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/focusitvideo- Twitter: https://twitter.com/focusstoria- Sito: https://www.focus.it/cultura

Tredici presidenti – la vita, l'azione di governo, l'impatto che hanno avuto sull'America (e oltre) – raccontati in forma di una chiacchierata – non sempre seria. A fare le domande, Riccardo Alcaro, coordinatore delle ricerche dell'Istituto Affari Internazionali. Chi risponde è Mario Del Pero, illustre americanista e Professore di Storia Internazionale presso SciencesPo a Parigi.Terza puntata dedicata ad Andrew Jackson, 7° presidente degli Stati Uniti, in carica per due mandati dal 1829 al 1837.Jackson è il primo presidente della generazione successiva a quella dei padri fondatori. Ma prima ancora del sistema politico, la novità di Jackson rispetto ai presidenti padri fondatori – dopo Washington: Adams, Jefferson, Madison Monroe e Adams – sta nella sua biografia decisamente fuori dall'ordinario. Quella di Jackson è infatti una vita avventurosa, esterna al percorso formativo dei suoi predecessori e caratterizzata soprattutto dalla sua esperienza militare e dal modo in cui fece di questa il trampolino verso la politica – in modo non dissimile, direi, da quanto aveva fatto Washington.Andrew Jackson nasce nel 1767, prima dunque dell'indipendenza, in una delle due Caroline (lui sosteneva di essere originario della Carolina del Sud, ma secondo alcuni l'area in cui nacque apparteneva a quella del Nord), anche se poi finì per rappresentare il Tennessee nel senato federale. La sua famiglia, di origine scozzese e irlandese, gli garantisce una buona educazione. Orfano già all'età di 14 anni, dalla madre ereditò l'odio per gli inglesi e le loro istituzioni politiche (monarchia) e sociali (aristocrazia), ulteriormente rafforzato dalla guerra e dalla prigionia che ne seguì. Pur avendo partecipato come staffetta, giovanissimo, alla guerra di indipendenza, è in un'altra guerra che Jackson si conquistò i gradi militari, il favore del pubblico e infine l'attenzione della leadership politica, ovvero la guerra che gli Stati Uniti combatterono contro l'Impero britannico tra il 1812 e il 1815 e contro i nativi americani alleati dei britannici.Il prestigio conquistato nelle campagne militari proietta Jackson sulla scena politica, al punto da candidarsi alle presidenziali del 1824, una tornata elettorale che segna l'inizio della fine del primo sistema partitico, già peraltro in via di dissoluzione data la crescente irrilevanza dei Federalisti e le faide interne ai Democratici-Repubblicani. Grazie anche all'espansione del suffragio elettorale, Jackson ottiene la maggioranza relativa sia del voto popolare che del collegio elettorale, eppure la presidenza finisce al suo sfidante John Quincy Adams.La presidenza di Jackson è caratterizzata da due trionfi elettorali nel 1828 e '32, il primo dei quali al termine di una campagna elettorale in cui Jackson è accusato di tutto (di essere un mulatto, uno schiavista, un assassino, uno stupratore di native americane, addirittura un cannibale), il che porta alla morte della moglie (accusata di adulterio; famose le parole di Jackson: “possa dio onnipotente perdonare i suoi assassini, come so che lei farebbe; perché io non potrò mai farlo”).Nonostante la sua avversione verso la centralizzazione federale, Jackson fu anche un deciso unionista – arrivando a minacciare un intervento armato contro la Carolina del Sud, rea di eccessivo autonomismo – e un espansionista – appoggiò la secessione dal Messico del Texas, che verrà poi annesso nella guerra messicana del presidente James Polk nella seconda metà degli anni '40.https://storiainpodcast.focus.it - Canale PersonaggiA cura di Francesco De Leo. Montaggio di Silvio Farina.------------Storia in Podcast di Focus si può ascoltare anche su Spotify http://bit.ly/VoceDellaStoria ed Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/la-voce-della-storia/id1511551427.Siamo in tutte le edicole... ma anche qui:- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FocusStoria/- Gruppo Facebook Focus Storia Wars: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FocuStoriaWars/ (per appassionati di storia militare)- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/focusitvideo- Twitter: https://twitter.com/focusstoria- Sito: https://www.focus.it/cultura

Paul is rejoined by Jeff to discuss the two semifinal playoff games from a 2024 NFL Draft perspective. The guys start by discussing in detail the performance of quarterback Michael Penix Jr. and his draft stock.  They discuss his traits and where his draft stock should be right now and what it could be following the National Championship game. Next they discuss the other top prospects from the Washington vs Texas and the Alabama vs Michigan games. The other prospects discussed include wide receivers Rome Odunze, James Polk, Jalen McMillan, AD Mitchell, Xavier Worthy, tight end Jatavion Sanders, running backs Blake Corum and Jase McClellan and quarterbacks Quinn Ewers, JJ McCarthy and Jalen Milroe.  Next, Paul and Jeff discuss some of the top prospects that declared for the 2024 NFL Draft which included a detailed discuss on quarterback Jayden Daniels and how high his draft stock may reach as well.  To close out the show, the guys discuss many of the top prospects who have entered the transfer portal and discuss some of their new landing spots and some other major names including Evan Stewart that are still yet undecided about where they will play next year.    To purchase the S2S Premium Notebooks for $9.99 or to read the full descriptions of what is in each notebooks, click here. Hosts: Paul Perdichizzi (@paulie23ny) Jeff Abercrombie (@theSofascout) Editor: David Nakano (@KawikaNakano) Website: Saturday2SundayFootball (@s2sfootball)

BONUS episode featuring my summer of presidential travels as I fit in as many birthplaces, gravesites, homes, and other sites into one history professor's summer break.  The second of three trips, join me as I visit Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and DC!Check out "How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels, 2023, Part 1"! Links to Previous Episodes Mentioned:Birthplaces"Thomas Jefferson and Shadwell""William Henry Harrison and the Berkeley Plantation""John Tyler and Greenway Plantation""James Polk and Pineville""Zachary Taylor and Montebello""Woodrow Wilson and Staunton"Homes"Thomas Jefferson and Monticello""James Madison and Montpelier""James Monroe and Highland""John Tyler and Sherwood Forest""William Howard Taft and Washington DC""Woodrow Wilson and Washington DC""Warren Harding and Marion""Herbert Hoover and Palo Alto" "Lyndon Johnson and the LBJ Ranch""Gerald Ford and Alexandria""Bill Clinton and Chappaqua""Barack Obama and Oahu (and Kalorama)"Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Support the showVisit the social media on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Get your "Visiting the Presidents" Merchandise at VisitingPresidentsMerch.com!

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 993, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 5 Random Things 1: A 2014 headline: "Florida family butt-dials" this no. "while planning their next meth cook"; a dispatcher listened for 30 min.. 911. 2: Holy biloba! Here's a beautiful example of this tree at a Buddhist temple said to be planted by a Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty. a ginkgo. 3: Astronauts Scott, Worden and Irwin established a U. of Michigan alumni club on the Moon during this, the 4th mission to land. Apollo 15. 4: This book after Exodus: "All that have not fins and scales in the seas... be an abomination unto you", so eating lobster? A no-go. Leviticus. 5: Viewable from the U.N. in the East River, one of New York City's smallest islands is named for this secretary-general from Myanmar. U Thant. Round 2. Category: The Canary 1: The 50-story Canary Wharf Tower on the Thames River is this capital city's tallest building. London. 2: The world's largest canary diamond, a vivid yellow gem from South Africa, bears the name of this NYC jeweler. Tiffany. 3: Harz Mountain and St. Andreasberg are 2 regions in this European country famous as canary breeding centers. Germany. 4: Better-known nickname of Wild West woman Martha Jane Canary. Calamity Jane. 5: Canaries take their name from the Canary Islands, which belong to this country. Spain. Round 3. Category: Presidential This And That 1: Presidential brother Edgar Eisenhower was called "Big" this; Dwight was the "Little" version. Ike. 2: A long-shot compromise candidate in 1844, James Polk is considered the first of these "equine" winners. a dark horse. 3: He was a brigadier general when he demanded the "Unconditional Surrender" of Fort Donelson in February 1862. Grant. 4: 3 recent presidents--Bush I, Clinton and Obama--shared this trait common to only about 10% of Americans. left-handedness. 5: Before becoming president, he helped his wife Lou translate "De re metallica", a 1556 text that detailed copper mining. Hoover. Round 4. Category: Drop Out 1: Known as "The Body", this pro wrestler-turned-governor dropped out of a Minnesota community college. Jesse Ventura. 2: Both named Steve, these 2 now fabulously wealthy college dropouts founded Apple Computer. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. 3: After dropping out of high school, he ran McDonald's and became a McMillionaire. Kroc. 4: This fur mogul and high school dropout has been called America's first multimillionaire. (John Jacob) Astor. 5: Arriving from Scotland in 1848 as an elementary school dropout, he sold his company in 1901 for $480 million. Carnegie. Round 5. Category: Social Studies 1: This group is composed of those of your same age or social position; in a courtroom, you might face a jury of them. peers. 2: It's South America's most populous country. Brazil. 3: Also called citizenship education, it's the study of the rights and responsibilities of citizens. civics. 4: One of America's early social workers, her Hull House spearheaded the U.S. settlement house movement. Jane Addams. 5: In January 2019 this South American country's national assembly declared its president a "usurper" and named its own replacement. Venezuela. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

As mentioned in the previous episode, we are continuing to provide some of the basic information that is imparted by the Higher Mind Training, which is a new personal growth program being prepared for release by the Better Angels Publishing Company. Its purpose is to help the normal, everyday person emerge from the prison of self-sabotage into the freedom of self-empowerment. The program probably won't be released until the middle of next year, but we want to give our podcast subscribers the information now, so you can begin using it right away, if you like.           To begin this episode, let's start out by taking a little detour in time and space back to August 13, 1865 to a sanitarium in Vienna, Austria, which is the date upon which one of its inmates named Ignatz Semmelweis died. He had suffered from a nervous breakdown and had been confined to the sanitarium a few months earlier. Outspoken, unruly, and constantly arguing that he was being held against his will, he suffered regular beatings from the guards. The cause of his death had been a gangrenous wound on his right hand, which was a probable result of one of these beatings.           Surprisingly, Semmelweis was a physician and scientist who had fallen into serious disrepute among the medical establishment of the capital city. He had been doing research on the mortality rates among women during childbirth and at one point, he had come up with a radical new idea that became extremely unpopular, primarily because there was absolutely no scientific basis for it. Even so, it seemed to make intuitive sense to him, so he began to institute it at Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic.           He documented the results of his unfounded and unaccepted new procedure and found that over several months, the maternal mortality rate in the obstetrical clinic dropped from 18% to 2%. Even though he still had no scientific theory upon which to base any medical hypothesis whatsoever, he still published a book about his findings in 1861, called “Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever.”           Given the story so far, the next obvious question would be – what was this radical new idea that Dr. Semmelweis had come up with that had seemingly cut the maternity mortality rate by nearly ninety percent? Now remember, he had no scientific explanation for how or why his procedure worked and every medical professional who had heard about it was adamantly opposed to it.           Get ready. You will probably find this quite shocking. He proposed that all the health care workers in the hospital, the doctors, nurses, and midwives, should wash their hands before they performed any procedure on any patient. In fact, he felt they should wash their hands before they even touched anyone at all and he came up with a chlorinated lime solution to do the job.           He had absolutely no scientific reasoning to support his supposition and his outrageous idea was met with ridicule and universally condemned by the entire medical establishment. They were certain of their opinion because, in their highly educated minds, the concept made absolutely no sense. Why would washing your hands have anything to do whatsoever with protecting the health of mothers and babies during childbirth?           And on top of that, the doctors felt personally offended. Why should they have to wash their hands? Afterall, doctors were considered to be refined gentlemen and gentlemen never have to wash their hands. That was for laborers and other members of the lower classes.           Following his clashes with the medical establishment, Semmelweis got involved with some other societal and political battles as well, and was ridiculed, ostracized, and finally ruined. He suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum where he eventually died from the beatings he received from the guards.           All of this came from the audacity he had to suggest that medical professionals should wash their hands before treating patients. And don't forget, they weren't treating just anybody. This was the upper crust of Austrian society.  Many of the mothers and babies who died in the contaminated obstetrical hospitals were members of the aristocracy and royalty of Europe, who were being treated by the finest doctors of the day.           Many years after his death, because of his efforts to protect the maternity environment, he became widely known as the “Savior of Mothers.” Of course, he wasn't the first savior to be crucified by his detractors and certainly not the last.           To put the story into historical perspective, Dr. Semmelweis had made his radical handwashing suggestion about twenty years before the general emergence of germ theory into the scientific world, which followed the work of Pasteur and Lister.   Back in 1860, they knew nothing about germs whatsoever. They had never even heard the term. They still believed that disease was caused by liquid “humors” in the body, a two-thousand-year-old concept that was concocted by ancient Greek and Roman doctors. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the standard accepted medical procedure of the day for treating disease was still simple bloodletting. And they felt that the state of their medical understanding was incredibly advanced.           As primitive as they may appear today, this has been the case with most cultures. Every society thinks they are incredibly advanced, and this conceit goes way back. When chariots were invented in about 1600 BC, they were all the rage. The Hittites took them to an unheard-of level of comfort and maneuverability, and eventually refined them for warfare. The most advanced military battle of its time was fought in 1274 BC with over five thousand chariots helping to boost the carnage. I'm sure the warriors were all proud of the level of modernity they had achieved.           Going back to the “Savior of Mothers” 1860 example, let's back up a little to 1830's, 40's and 50's, and consider the tremendously advanced water system that was set up to bring water into the White House. It was complete with steam driven pumps and cast-iron piping and the fact that water was delivered in this way to the White House was a marvel of the times.           Of course, no one knew anything about germ theory and although the piping system was ingenious, the water that it carried was severely contaminated, coming from wells that abutted wastewater dumps that were loaded with pathogens. It is now believed that Presidents Henry Harrison, James Polk and Zachary Taylor all died as a result of exposure to the water brought in by that otherwise innovative system.           And that's not to mention the tragic death of Abraham Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, who died from typhoid fever which was directly related to the putrid White House water.           So, due to their significant technological advances, they were able to distribute water in a more convenient way, but with their ignorance of germ theory, they just made it more convenient for people to get sick and die.           Of course, we've come a long way and hand sanitization has become almost universal, especially since the pandemic. But back then, they just didn't know what they didn't know. And guess what? Neither do we. No one ever does. I often find myself wondering what the people living a hundred and fifty years from now will think of us. Like all previous cultures, we believe we are incredibly advanced. But what critical factors don't we know now, that will be common knowledge throughout the world in 2175? With my lifelong focus on the evolution of human consciousness, my assumption as well as my hope is that it will have something to do with the way we use our minds. Because to put it simply, the way we use our minds is the basic root of all the major troubles that we face today. Look at it this way. We live in an extremely troubled world, nearly drowning in a sea of immense problems, and from what I've read, if you ask artificial intelligence to come up with a plan that would quickly and efficiently save the planet, it would simply respond, “Get rid of the human beings.” Of course, it's a shocking response, and some AI experts find it deeply disturbing, but you can see the troubling logic behind it. And if we are the primary cause of the problems that are plaguing our world, what's wrong with us?  Again, the answer is dramatically simple. It's our mind. That's right. the most advanced biological evolution since the beginning of life on earth, and indeed the very factor that enabled us to emerge from the brutal tests of survival of the fittest, this miraculous organ is the very cause of all our issues. And it isn't really the mind itself that is the problem. It's the way we use it. Let's refine that statement a little. It's the unconscious way that we've been unconsciously trained to unconsciously use it that's creating the problem. We have a mind with nearly unfathomable intelligence, but we haven't learned how to use it in a human-centric way. We develop incredible technology, but we don't use it in a way that serves humanity or the rest of the planet.   And this lack of evolved consciousness is nothing new. Just look at our track record. It's pretty dismal. And that's not just in caring for the planet, it's also deeply troubling in taking care of ourselves. Here is a particularly disgusting example.  About 160,000 people die each week from starvation on earth. That means that close to 8,500,000 people literally starve to death each year. They die because they simply don't get enough food to eat.           Now, get this – in the United States alone, 119 billion pounds of food is wasted each year. That means that 130 billion meals, $408 billion in food or about 40% of the total food supply is simply thrown out. Discarded. Four hundred and eight billion dollars of food is wasted each year, while 8,500,000 people die of starvation.           We have the money and we have the technology. We just have a serious problem with the way we misuse our intelligence. And personally, I believe that if and when people 150 years from now look back on us, it will be the generally primitive level of our human consciousness that will be so shocking to them. Because when it comes to the overall state of our consciousness, basically, we're still living a glorified law of the jungle. You know the drill – I, me, mine. Dog eat dog, Winner takes all, and the countless variations of the same primitive, fear-based theme, which leads to the sad conclusion that in the entire world, we have no greater enemy than ourselves. No other creature or factor poses a greater threat to our survival than we do. If the human species is ever destroyed, there is a high probability that it will be a case of unconscious suicide.           So, there can be no doubt that the growth of our inner consciousness is critical to our survival as a species, and I'd like to offer two of my favorite quotes on the subject. Albert Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” And Dr. Carl Jung said, “The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.”           So again, we must grow. And when it comes to inner growth, I'd like to suggest a “what if.”  What if it's not all that hard? What if like the germs in the nineteenth century, there is something incredibly basic that we just don't know yet? And what if the key to our advancement is as simple as just washing your hands?           Well, this seems like a good place to stop. We'll go a couple of steps deeper in the coming episode, so keep your eyes, mind and heart open, and let's get together in the next one.

BONUS episode featuring my summer of presidential travels as I fit in as many birthplaces, gravesites, homes, and other sites into one history professor's summer break.  The first of three trips, join me as I visit Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Mississippi!Links to Previous Episodes Mentioned:Birthplaces"Andrew Johnson and Raleigh""George W Bush and New Haven" Homes"James Polk and Columbia""Zachary Taylor and Louisville""Andrew Johnson and Greeneville""George HW Bush and Kennebunkport""George W Bush and Crawford"Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Support the showVisit the social media on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Get your "Visiting the Presidents" Merchandise at VisitingPresidentsMerch.com!

Holley Rumbarger and James Polk sit down with the duo behind Hattiesburg's newest coffee community, Kaffeehaus Fabelhaft, Michael Herrington and Bunyamin Yusufolglu. Music for the episode provided by Plang Phitchaya, USM graduate. 

Holley Rumbarger and James Polk sit down with the duo behind Hattiesburg's newest coffee community, Kaffeehaus Fabelhaft, Michael Herrington and Bunyamin Yusufolglu. Music for the episode provided by Plang Phitchaya, USM graduate. 

The Mogollon culture was an indigenous culture in the Western United States and Mexico that ranged from New Mexico and Arizona to Sonora, Mexico and out to Texas. They flourished from around 200 CE until the Spanish showed up and claimed their lands. The cultures that pre-existed them date back thousands more years, although archaeology has yet to pinpoint exactly how those evolved. Like many early cultures, they farmed and foraged. As they farmed more, their homes become more permanent and around 800 CE they began to create more durable homes that helped protect them from wild swings in the climate. We call those homes adobes today and the people who lived in those peublos and irrigated water, often moving higher into mountains, we call the Peubloans - or Pueblo Peoples. Adobe homes are similar to those found in ancient cultures in what we call Turkey today. It's an independent evolution. Adobe Creek was once called Arroyo de las Yeguas by the monks from Mission Santa Clara and then renamed to San Antonio Creek by a soldier Juan Prado Mesa when the land around it was given to him by the governor of Alto California at the time, Juan Bautista Alvarado. That's the same Alvarado as the street if you live in the area. The creek runs for over 14 miles north from the Black Mountain and through Palo Alto, California. The ranchers built their adobes close to the creeks. American settlers led the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846, and took over the garrison of Sonoma, establishing the California Republic - which covered much of the lands of the Peubloans. There were only 33 of them at first, but after John Fremont (yes, he of whom that street is named after as well) encouraged the Americans, they raised an army of over 100 men and Fremont helped them march on Sutter's fort, now with the flag of the United States, thanks to Joseph Revere of the US Navy (yes, another street in San Francisco bears his name).  James Polk had pushed to expand the United States. Manfiest Destiny. Remember The Alamo. Etc. The fort at Monterey fell, the army marched south. Admiral Sloat got involved. They named a street after him. General Castro surrendered - he got a district named after him. Commodore Stockton announced the US had taken all of Calfironia soon after that. Manifest destiny was nearly complete. He's now basically the patron saint of a city, even if few there know who he was. The forts along the El Camino Real that linked the 21 Spanish Missions, a 600-mile road once walked by their proverbial father, Junípero Serra following the Portolá expedition of 1769, fell. Stockton took each, moving into Los Angeles, then San Diego. Practically all of Alto California fell with few shots. This was nothing like the battles for the independence of Texas, like when Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission.  Meanwhile, the waters of Adobe Creek continued to flow. The creek was renamed in the 1850s after Mesa built an adobe on the site. Adobe Creek it was. Over the next 100 years, the area evolved into a paradise with groves of trees and then groves of technology companies. The story of one begins a little beyond the borders of California.  Utah was initialy explored by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in 1540 and settled by Europeans in search of furs and others who colonized the desert, including those who established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Mormons - who settled there in 1847, just after the Bear Flag Revolt. The United States officially settled for the territory in 1848 and Utah became a territory and after a number of map changes wher ethe territory got smaller, was finally made a state in 1896. The University of Utah had been founded all the way back in 1850, though - and re-established in the 1860s.  100 years later, the University of Utah was a hotbed of engineers who pioneered a number of graphical advancements in computing. John Warnock went to grad school there and then went on to co-found Adobe and help bring us PostScript. Historically, PS, or Postscript was a message to be placed at the end of a letter, following the signature of the author. The PostScript language was a language to describe a page of text computationally. It was created by Adobe when Warnock, Doug Brotz, Charles Geschke, Bill Paxton (who worked on the Mother of All Demos with Doug Englebart during the development of Online System, or NLS in the late 70s and then at Xerox PARC), and Ed Taft. Warnock invented the Warnock algorithm while working on his PhD and went to work at Evans & Sutherland with Ivan Sutherland who effectively created the field of computer graphics. Geschke got his PhD at Carnegie Melon in the early 1970s and then went of to Xerox PARC. They worked with Paxton at PARC and before long, these PhDs and mathematicians had worked out the algorithms and then the languages to display images on computers while working on InterPress graphics at Xerox and Gerschke left Xerox and started Adobe. Warnock joined them and they went to market with Interpress as PostScript, which became a foundation for the Apple LaswerWriter to print graphics.  Not only that, PostScript could be used to define typefaces programmatically and later to display any old image.    Those technologies became the foundation for the desktop publishing industry. Apple released the 1984 Mac and other vendors brought in PostScript to describe graphics in their proprietary fashion and by 1991 they released PostScript Level 2 and then PostScript 3 in 1997. Other vendors made their own or furthered standards in their own ways and Adobe could have faded off into the history books of computing. But Adobe didn't create one product, they created an industry and the company they created to support that young industry created more products in that mission.  Steve Jobs tried to buy Adobe before that first Mac as released, for $5,000,000. But Warnock and Geschke had a vision for an industry in mind. They had a lot of ideas but development was fairly capital intensive, as were go to market strategies. So they went public on the NASDAQ in 1986. They expanded their PostScript distribution and sold it to companies like Texas Instruments for their laser printer, and other companies who made IBM-compatible companies. They got up to $16 million in sales that year. Warnock's wife was a graphic designer. This is where we see a diversity of ideas help us think about more than math. He saw how she worked and could see a world where Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad was much more given how far CPUs had come since the TX-0 days at MIT. So Adobe built and released Illustrator in 1987. By 1988 they broke even on sales and it raked in $19 million in revenue. Sales were strong in the universities but PostScript was still the hot product, selling to printer companies, typesetters, and other places were Adobe signed license agreements.  At this point, we see where the math, cartesian coordinates, drawn by geometric algorithms put pixels where they should be. But while this was far more efficient than just drawing a dot in a coordinate for larger images, drawing a dot in a pixel location was still the easier technology to understand.  They created Adobe Screenline in 1989 and Collectors Edition to create patterns. They listened to graphic designers and built what they heard humans wanted. Photoshop Nearly every graphic designer raves about Adobe Photoshop. That's because Photoshop is the best selling graphics editorial tool that has matured far beyond most other traditional solutions and now has thousands of features that allow users to manipulate images in practically any way they want.  Adobe Illustrator was created in 1987 and quickly became the de facto standard in vector-based graphics. Photoshop began life in 1987 as well, when Thomas and John Knoll, wanted to build a simpler tool to create graphics on a computer. Rather than vector graphics they created a raster graphical editor.  They made a deal with Barneyscan, a well-known scanner company that managed to distribute over two hundred copies of Photoshop with their scanners and Photoshop became a hit as it was the first editing software people heard about. Vector images are typically generated with Cartesian coordinates based on geometric formulas and so scale out more easily. Raster images are comprised of a grid of dots, or pixels, and can be more realistic.  Great products are rewarded with competitions. CorelDRAW was created in 1989 when Michael Bouillon and Pat Beirne built a tool to create vector illustrations. The sales got slim after other competitors entered the market and the Knoll brothers got in touch with Adobe and licensed the product through them. The software was then launched as Adobe Photoshop 1 in 1990. They released Photoshop 2 in 1991. By now they had support for paths, and given that Adobe also made Illustrator, EPS and CMYK rasterization, still a feature in Photoshop.  They launched Adobe Photoshop 2.5 in 1993, the first version that could be installed on Windows. This version came with a toolbar for filters and 16-bit channel support. Photoshop 3 came in 1994 and Thomas Knoll created what was probably one of the most important features added, and one that's become a standard in graphical applications since, layers. Now a designer could create a few layers that each had their own elements and hide layers or make layers more transparent. These could separate the subject from the background and led to entire new capabilities, like an almost faux 3 dimensional appearance of graphics..  Then version four in 1996 and this was one of the more widely distributed versions and very stable. They added automation and this was later considered part of becoming a platform - open up a scripting language or subset of a language so others built tools that integrated with or sat on top of those of a product, thus locking people into using products once they automated tasks to increase human efficiency.  Adobe Photoshop 5.0 added editable type, or rasterized text. Keep in mind that Adobe owned technology like PostScript and so could bring technology from Illustrator to Photoshop or vice versa, and integrate with other products - like export to PDF by then. They also added a number of undo options, a magnetic lasso, improved color management and it was now a great tool for more advanced designers. Then in 5.5 they added a save for web feature in a sign of the times. They could created vector shapes and continued to improve the user interface. Adobe 5 was also a big jump in complexity. Layers were easy enough to understand, but Photoshop was meant to be a subset of Illustrator features and had become far more than that. So in 2001 they released Photoshop Elements. By now they had a large portfolio of products and Elements was meant to appeal to the original customer base - the ones who were beginners and maybe not professional designers. By now, some people spent 40 or more hours a day in tools like Photoshop and Illustrator.  Adobe Today Adobe had released PostScript, Illustrator, and Photoshop. But they have one of the most substantial portfolios of products of any company. They also released Premiere in 1991 to get into video editing. They acquired Aldus Corporation to get into more publishing workflows with PageMaker. They used that acquisition to get into motion graphics with After Effects. They acquired dozens of companies and released their products as well. Adobe also released the PDF format do describe full pages of information (or files that spread across multiple pages) in 1993 and Adobe Acrobat to use those. Acrobat became the de facto standard for page distribution so people didn't have to download fonts to render pages properly. They dabbled in audio editing when they acquired Cool Edit Pro from Syntrillium Software and so now sell Adobe Audition.  Adobe's biggest acquisition was Macromedia in 2005. Here, they added a dozen new products to the portfolio, which included Flash, Fireworks, WYSYWIG web editor Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Flex, and Breeze, which is now called Adobe Connect. By now, they'd also created what we call Creative Suite, which are packages of applications that could be used for given tasks. Creative Suite also signaled a transition into a software as a service, or SaaS mindset. Now customers could pay a monthly fee for a user license rather than buy large software packages each time a new version was released. Adobe had always been a company who made products to create graphics. They expanded into online marketing and web analytics when they bought Omniture in 2009 for $1.8 billion. These products are now normalized into the naming convention used for the rest as Adobe Marketing Cloud. Flash fell by the wayside and so the next wave of acquisitions were for more mobile-oriented products. This began with Day Software and then Nitobi in 2011. And they furthered their Marketing Cloud support with an acquisition of one of the larger competitors when they acquired Marketo in 2018 and acquiring Workfront in 2020.  Given how many people started working from home, they also extended their offerings into pure-cloud video tooling with an acquisition of Frame.io in 2021. And here we see a company started by a bunch of true computer sciencists from academia in the early days of the personal computer that has become far more. They could have been rolled into Apple but had a vision of a creative suite of products that could be used to make the world a prettier place. Creative Suite then Creative Cloud shows a move of the same tools into a more online delivery model. Other companies come along to do similar tasks, like infinite digital whiteboard Miro - so they have to innovate to stay marketable. They have to continue to increase sales so they expand into other markets like the most adjacent Marketing Cloud.  At 22,500+ employees and with well over $12 billion in revenues, they have a lot of families dependent on maintaining that growth rate. And so the company becomes more than the culmination of their software. They become more than graphic design, web design, video editing, animation, and visual effects. Because in software, if revenues don't grow at a rate greater than 10 percent per year, the company simply isn't outgrowing the size of the market and likely won't be able to justify stock prices at an inflated earnings to price ratio that shows explosive growth. And yet once a company saturates sales in a given market they have shareholders to justify their existence to. Adobe has survived many an economic downturn and boom time with smart, measured growth and is likely to continue doing so for a long time to come.

Wife to eleventh president James Polk, Sarah Childress Polk enjoyed much more freedom than her contemporaries. Without children and more educated that many other women, Mrs. Polk used her charms in furtherance of her husband's political agenda. However, she was aware of - and believed in - the social norms of the time. This made Polk work diligently behind the scenes in support of her spouse. Tune in to learn all about Sarah Childress Polk. For show notes, transcripts, or how you can support the show, visit the website at www.civicsandcoffee.comSupport the show

Eleventh President James K Polk is often touted as America's first "dark horse" candidate. Considered a man who was plucked from relative obscurity to command the republic, Polk's administration not only oversaw one of the last pushes for territorial expansion for the United States, but also fulfilled his campaign promises by accomplishing his stated priorities all in a single term.Tune in as I dive into the presidential administration of James Polk. Was he really a dark horse? And what does his presidency say about the nation at the time? For source material, transcripts, and ways you can help the show, visit the website at www.civicsandcoffee.com Support the show

#antones #fabulousthunderbirds #stevierayvaughan #austinmusicians Angela discusses her long career and talks about her friends in the music biz: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Muddy Waters, Huey Lewis, Gregg Allman, Janis Joplin and more. In the early 1960s, Strehli learned the harmonica and bass guitar before becoming a vocalist. In 1966 she visited Chicago, and attended concerts given by Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy. In her final university year, Strehli and Lewis Cowdrey formed the Fabulous Rockets. Strehli then sang as a backing vocalist for James Polk and the Brothers and assisted with Storm, which had been formed by Cowdrey and Jimmie Vaughan. In 1972, she was a founding member of Southern Feeling, along with W. C. Clark and Denny Freeman. Three years later Strehli became the stage manager and sound technician at Antone's, a nightclub in Austin, Texas. By 1986, Strehli had recorded Stranger Blues (EP) which help launch Antone's own record label. Her debut album was Soul Shake (1987, Antone's Records), and she appeared on Dreams Come True, with Lou Ann Barton and Marcia Ball (1990). Her own effort Blonde and Blue (1993, Rounder Records) assisted in building the Austin, Texas blues scene, alongside nightclub owner Clifford Antone, Kim Wilson, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan. In 1998, Strehli released Deja Blue, and Blue Highway followed in 2005. Mark Hummel www.markhummel.com Patreon https://www.patreon.com/markhummel Accidental Productions https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOOnWFbj8SGiV34ixhO0Cwg

In this episode, we continue with our discussion of the context for the Mormon Battalion as the Federal Government continues its disinformation campaign with the Saints. We share some specific conversations that Jesse Little has with Thomas Kane and President James Polk.  Please visit our website at www.standardoftruth.com If you have any questions or possible topics of discussion for upcoming podcasts, please email us at: questions@standardoftruthpodcast.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG0yyZlH_HYWmKegHoC96ig/featured

In his one term as president, James Polk added more territory to the U.S. than any other American. He should be on the money. But we choose to ignore him. Find out why we forget about the man who gave us the territories that now comprise California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Texas, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.

In this episode of Rough Draft Hattiesburg, James Polk and Holley Rumbarger interview the visionary behind Be Yellow Music Collective, Lynlee Paige Walters. Musical interludes provided by Tyler Flathau and the Forgotten Few (Original songs "Savannah" and "Nola"). Musical excerpts from Be Yellow Music Collective artists include "Under Pressure" by Naomi Taylor, "Cabbage" by Royal Horses, "12 White Roses" by Sullivan's Hollow, "In Time" by Sloth Racer, and "Uninterrupted Sky" by Holley Rumbarger. 

In this episode of Rough Draft Hattiesburg, James Polk and Holley Rumbarger interview the visionary behind Be Yellow Music Collective, Lynlee Paige Walters. Musical interludes provided by Tyler Flathau and the Forgotten Few (Original songs "Savannah" and "Nola"). Musical excerpts from Be Yellow Music Collective artists include "Under Pressure" by Naomi Taylor, "Cabbage" by Royal Horses, "12 White Roses" by Sullivan's Hollow, "In Time" by Sloth Racer, and "Uninterrupted Sky" by Holley Rumbarger. 

Fred discusses the Smithsonian Institution, named after it's founder James Smithson, which was officially established on this day in 1846 by President James Polk. www.rockysealemusic.com https://rockysealemusic.com/wow-i-didn-t-know-that-or-maybe-i-just-forgot https://www.facebook.com/150wordspodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rocky-seale7/message

In 1845, newly inaugurated President James Polk made America's westward expansion a centerpiece of his administration. Before long, the phrase “Manifest Destiny” was used to describe this growing sense of inevitability the United States would extend its territory across the entire North American continent. There was just one problem: Mexico was standing in the way.Listen ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App. https://wondery.app.link/historytellersPlease support us by supporting our sponsors!Netsuite- Head to netsuite.com/tellers for a 1-of-a-kind financing offer to grow your business!Peloton- Want strength, endurance, flexibility? Visit onepeloton.com to learn more!Zip Recruiter- For an easier way to find the right jobs and connect with great employers, go to ziprecruiter.com to sign up for FREE!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Holley Rumbarger and James Polk interview the dynamic duo; Abigail Allen and Rebecca Chandler, co-creators of Hattiesburlesque. These two are the creative minds behind Hattiesburg's one and only burlesque troupe. Abigail and Rebecca empower women through positive body imagery, camaraderie, and acceptance. These two are unstoppable!

Holley Rumbarger and James Polk interview the dynamic duo; Abigail Allen and Rebecca Chandler, co-creators of Hattiesburlesque. These two are the creative minds behind Hattiesburg's one and only burlesque troupe. Abigail and Rebecca empower women through positive body imagery, camaraderie, and acceptance. These two are unstoppable!

================================================== ==SUSCRIBETEhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNpffyr-7_zP1x1lS89ByaQ?sub_confirmation=1================================================== == DEVOCIÓN MATUTINA PARA ADOLESCENTES 2022“UN SALTO EN EL TIEMPO”Narrado por: DORIANY SÁNCHEZDesde: PERÚUna cortesía de DR'Ministries y Canaan Seventh-Day Adventist Church  13 DE MAYOPOLK LE DECLARA LA GUERRA A MÉXICO«Él juzgará entre las naciones y reprendará a muchos pueblos. Convertirán sus espadas en rejas de arado y sus lanzas en hoces; no alzará espada nación contra nación ni se adiestrarán más para la guerra» (Isaías 2:4, RV95).En este día de 1846, el entonces presidente de los Estados Unidos, James Polk, le quitaría la voluntad a México. Las relaciones entre los dos países se habían deteriorado durante los ocho años transcurridos desde que Texas obtuvo su independencia del vecino del sur, uniéndose a los Estados Unidos como su vigésimo octavo estado. Polk envió una misión diplomática para restaurar las relaciones y ayudar a resolver las disputas entre los ciudadanos de Texas y México. La misión fracasó y estalló la guerra. Tras casi dos años de lucha, finalmente se restableció la paz con el Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo. El Río Grande se convirtió en el límite sur de Texas, y California y Nuevo México fueron cedidos a los Estados Unidos. un cambio,La guerra evoca imágenes horripilantes de soldados ensangrentados viendo cómo sus compañeros son alcanzados por el fuego enemigo, soldados que pierden brazos, piernas y la vida; soldados que vuelven a casa a un país poco agradecidos. William T. Sherman, un general de la Unión en la Guerra Civil Estadounidense, lo resumió bien cuando dijo: «La guerra es un infierno». ¿Qué es lo que hace que las naciones se armen y se maten entre sí? Como en la guerra de Polk contra México y en casi todas las demás guerras de la historia de nuestro planeta, están en juego los derechos de las personas. La guerra es el método que los seres imperfectos han elegido para comprar derechos a la tierra, a la prosperidad ya la libertad.A veces olvidamos cuánto poder disfrutar del derecho a la libertad. ¿Podría decirse lo mismo de nuestra salvación? Por mucho que odiemos la guerra y lo que le ocurre a la gente durante una guerra, estamos en una guerra espiritual. Así como cuesta mucho hacer una guerra entre países, también cuesta mucho enfrentarse al enemigo de nuestra salvación.¿Alguna vez tiene sentido que nadie sabe por lo que estás pasando en las batallas que estás luchando? Hay un Soldado que realmente lo entiende, pues él experimentó más horror, mayores tentaciones y asaltos más sostenidos de lo que jamás experimentarás. Él lo hizo, no por ningún derecho para sí mismo, sino por tu salvación.

David Walker is a visionary, a wordsmith, a purveyor of fine music, and a pillar to the community. Join Holley Rumbarger and James Polk as they interview founder of University Baptist Church's Back Door Coffeehouse and author of The Max Series, David Walker. Music provided by Alejandro Romero, violinist in Latin American string quartet, Vivento String Quartet and musical educator at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM Symphony Orchestra), featuring James Polk on mandolin.

David Walker is a visionary, a wordsmith, a purveyor of fine music, and a pillar to the community. Join Holley Rumbarger and James Polk as they interview founder of University Baptist Church's Back Door Coffeehouse and author of The Max Series, David Walker. Music provided by Alejandro Romero, violinist in Latin American string quartet, Vivento String Quartet and musical educator at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM Symphony Orchestra), featuring James Polk on mandolin.

Young Hickory around the house! Heading back to the Volunteer State for Columbia, and the home of James Polk, 11th President! Learn about Polk's unique approach to work, his political rise and election, his tumultuous administration, his wife, Sarah, and his homes! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information!Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2022/05/10/season-2-episode-11-james-polk-and-columbia/Season 1 James Polk Episode-"James Polk and Pineville"Support the show

On this very special episode, James Polk and Holley Rumbarger interview father/daughter duo James and Jenny Moore of Moore's Bike Shop. The Moore's discuss the Hattiesburg bike community, their family's love for music, the loss of their son and brother to addiction and how his death sparked their efforts in addiction treatment and overdose prevention. Hattiesburgers are exceptional people, and the Moores are exemplary.Music provided by Jenny and James Moore; "I Saw the Light" (James on tuba and Jenny on accordion), and an original piano composition for Jeffrey Moore by Jenny Moore. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Jeffrey Lee Moore. 

On this very special episode, James Polk and Holley Rumbarger interview father/daughter duo James and Jenny Moore of Moore's Bike Shop. The Moore's discuss the Hattiesburg bike community, their family's love for music, the loss of their son and brother to addiction and how his death sparked their efforts in addiction treatment and overdose prevention. Hattiesburgers are exceptional people, and the Moores are exemplary.Music provided by Jenny and James Moore; "I Saw the Light" (James on tuba and Jenny on accordion), and an original piano composition for Jeffrey Moore by Jenny Moore. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Jeffrey Lee Moore. 

On this very special Spring Equinox edition of Rough Draft Hattiesburg, James Polk and Holley Rumbarger interview Brandiilyne (BB) Mangum Dear, owner of The Red Jasper metaphysical gift shop. This interview discusses spiritual healing and includes an oracle reading for the city of Hattiesburg and a singing bowl sound bath provided by Bb Mangum-Dear. 

Rough Draft Hattiesburg hosts James Polk and Holley Rumbarger discuss the sites and sounds of their hometown with local mover and shaker, Harry Goff. Original songs "Loner" and "Sweet Magnolia" by local musician Cole Hill.

James K Who? Travel to Pineville, NC, to see the birthplace of James K Polk, 11th President of the United States, and self-styled successor to Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson. Learn about his quick rise and intense work ethic, as well as what happened to his birthplace home! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2021/03/30/episode-11-james-knox-polk-and-pineville/ Support the show (https://paypal.me/VisitingPresidents?locale.x=en_US)

Listen. I'm well aware that the last thing the world needs is another biography of Klaus Nomi. He's already a household name on par with James Polk, young John Cusack, and the Andrews Sisters. What could I – a humble podcast magnate - possibly add to the reams upon reams of information already available to you via your home library, public library, magazine subscriptions, nightly newscasts, corner newsstand, and pocket super computer?

In the presidential election of 1844, James Polk campaigned on a policy of territorial expansion. After becoming president he used diplomacy and military force to implement his policy. In this episode we talk with Dr. Amy Greenberg about the politics and strategy of the Mexican-American War. Greenberg is a professor of history at Penn State University and the author of the book A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico.